When We Cease to Understand the World

When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain.Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. Some of their discoveries revolutionise our world for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear.With breakneck pace and wondrous detail, Benjamin Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Labatut, Benjamín Labatut
• Assisted by: Adrian Nathan West (Translation), West Adrian Nathan (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781782276142
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-614-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general